Although audiences may have already seen Momoa’s Aquaman, director James Wan (THE CONJURING) told EW that his version will be different. “It’s going to look very different, it will feel very different — aesthetically, tonally, story-wise — it’s my own take. It’s a much more a traditional action-adventure quest movie.”

Wan also explained that when Warner Bros first approached him, he was offered the choice of helming either the more familiar Flash solo film or Aquaman. So why Aquaman?

“Aquaman has been the joke of the comic book world, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought how cool that would be,” Wan explains. “Let’s take the character everybody makes fun of and do something really interesting with him.”